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... This extra heat makes the hurricanes and typhoons hitting coastal communities more intense, causes heavier downpours of rain and greater flooding, and results in longer marine heatwaves, which decimate life in the seas. The rising heat is also a major driver of sea level rise via the thermal expansion of seawater, threatening billions of people.

Reliable ocean temperature measurements stretch back to the mid-20th century, but it is likely the oceans are at their hottest for at least 1,000 years and heating faster than at any time in the past 2,000 years.

The atmosphere is a smaller store of heat and more affected by natural climate variations such as the El Nino-La Nina cycle.

The average surface air temperature in 2025 is expected to approximately tie with 2023 as the second-hottest year since records began in 1850, with 2024 being the hottest. Last year the planet moved into the cooler La Nia phase of the Pacific Ocean cycle. ...

@#2 ... given the current glut on the oil market.

Lowering prices is not in Big Oil's wheelhouse. ...

Yeah.

Big Oil is looking for a profit.

But the current oil glut has lowered the cost of oil to the point that is seems to be no longer profitable to find new sources of oil.

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... "Preliminary information indicates that a firearm was discharged inside a townhouse, with a single round traveling through a wall and striking a neighbor who was inside their home at the time," Henry said in an email.

The person who was shot was taken to the hospital, where they were pronounced dead, Henry said.

Henry said the person believed to be responsible left before police arrived. She said detectives were "continuing efforts" to locate the suspect. ...

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@#14 ... ... #13 | Posted by oneironaut

...How stupid are you? ...

You really need to ask?

@#3 ... Or was Fentanyl just a gateway drug to oil? ...

I'll file that under, things I wished I had posted.

Yeah, Pres Trump's expensive deployment of the Military in the area now seems to be more of a accommodation of the demands of the Big Oil donors for his 2024 campaign.

Of course, that leads me to ask ...

Pres Trump is viewed as a "strong man" by his MAGA supporters.

But how can he be so strong when mere money seems to control his actions?

To me, that seems like he is rather weak, i.e., showing an easily exploitable weakness -- money.

So, is Pres Trump really just a wimp who uses the US Military to try to substantiate an undeserved self-view of strength?

So, Big Oil seems to be reluctant to satisfy Pres Trump's imperialistic colonization demands?

@#3 ... Right, whatever happened to that? ...

To my eyes, Big Oil's donations to Pres Trump's 2024 campaign sidetracked that.

@#1 ... defended the tariffs under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act as bringing China, Mexico and Canada to the negotiating table to curb fentanyl trafficking ...

Wait, what?

The tariffs are not supposed to bring manufacturing jobs back to the US, as Pres trump has promised?

Why does the Trump admin look more and more like the Keystone Kops with each passing public speaking event?

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... Bessent, speaking at an Economic Club of Minnesota event at which he touted the benefits of the administration's economic agenda and discussed some of its plans in Venezuela following the removal of the South American country's leader, defended the tariffs under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act as bringing China, Mexico and Canada to the negotiating table to curb fentanyl trafficking. ...

@#4 ... That's so grade schoolish. ...

You've noticed also?

imo, that current alias is a Putin troll.

Nothing more, nothing less.

YMMV.

@#6 ... Mean Girl Fight! ...

Yeah, that looks like Pres Trump's approach to this issue.

i.e., trying to drag it down into the gutter of his stated political retribution.

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... Airlines operating in the US may have to upgrade their aircraft radio altimeters again at a cost of billions of dollars, to avoid potential interference with cell networks following the Trump administration's decision last year to auction off additional spectrum to bidders.

On Wednesday, the US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) issued a notice of proposed new regulations. If implemented, these will require all radio altimeters to meet specific minimum performance requirements.

Those requirements are for altimeters to able to withstand interference from wireless signals in neighboring spectrum bands, while continuing to provide accurate altitude readings to both pilots and integrated aircraft safety systems.

And the cost for all this? The FAA estimates the total bill to retrofit aircraft with interference-tolerant altimeters will be $4.49 billion, or $424 million annualized at a 7 percent discount rate over 20 years.

According to the FAA, the blame for this move lies with the Trump administration and its US budget bill signed into law last year that directed the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to open up more radio frequencies to be auctioned off for commercial use. ...

@#4

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@#791 ... 1 clearly shows an agent getting hit..... ...

Please provide a link to that video.

I have seen the video I think your current speaks of, and the camera angle seems to distort what happened.

So, please post a link to the video of which it speaks, so we can all see it and discuss it.

thx.

@#790 ... What was she guilty of? ...

Yeah, that is an excellent first question.

As follow-up question(s), I'd ask...

Was she prosecuted by Justice?

If so, what was the sentence imposed?

Oh wait, it now seems that an ICE agent with a grudge about something that had happened in his past has exhibited that grudge by shooting and killing a Mom who was trying to avoid hurting him.

@#3 ... Anyone else here see a problem? ...

[waving arms]

Pick me, pick me ...

Yeah, there is a significant problem here.

Most people who have cell-phones do not know it, but those phones are location beacons.

... "This is not an emergency evacuation," said a Nasa official, adding: "We always err on the side of the astronaut's health." ...

Good.

Get them back to Earth.

@#783 ... What do you believe you posted that justified the murder of Reene Good?

nothing ... that wasn't the point..

Wow.

OK, what, then was the point?

... and, if I may also add, wow, I have not seen a comment with these many replies.

And I do notice that I also see an option to select ...

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with the appropriate links behind those choices.

Kudos to this site.

#@778 ... you're hyperbolic gibberish is still in tact.. ...

Projecting?

@#17

I wish I could disagree.